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823 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.

Practise theseOne at a time, in a random order, with the explanation after each.

A 15-year-old girl has lost 7 kg over eight months by cutting out fats and running before school, and is frightened of gaining weight. She is 160 cm tall and we…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old primary school teacher is referred because of painless swelling at the angles of both jaws over four months. She is 165 cm tall and weighs 61 kg,…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

Six days ago a 27-year-old childcare worker was the front-seat passenger in a head-on collision in which the driver was killed. Since then she has had intrusive…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 23-year-old law student describes episodes that begin during arguments with her partner. She suddenly feels as though she has floated up to the ceiling and is…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 38-year-old woman has attended your general practice eleven times in six months. Each visit follows a new bodily sensation - a headache, a skin blemish, a twi…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 52-year-old woman attends your practice 20 to 30 times a year with headaches, bloating, dizziness and aching limbs that she says rule her days. She has had tw…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old operating theatre nurse has had eight admissions in a year with episodes of sweating and confusion. Today her blood glucose is 1.6 mmol/L (3.0 to…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 46-year-old man has consulted five doctors in two years convinced he has bowel cancer. He has had three colonoscopies, all normal, and inspects his stool ever…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

Three days ago a bus carrying school staff rolled on a country highway and two people died. A 44-year-old teacher who was on the bus is physically uninjured but…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 31-year-old teacher describes eight months of constant worry about her students, her mortgage and her parents' health that she cannot switch off. She is tense…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

Nineteen days after being pulled from a burning car, a 34-year-old man cannot stop seeing the flames whenever he closes his eyes. He wakes several times a night…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 20-year-old warehouse worker has spent five hours a day washing since he handled a leaking drum of solvent three months ago. He is certain he will poison his…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 29-year-old woman has had six months of abrupt attacks of pounding heartbeat, breathlessness and tingling fingers that peak within minutes. They have come on…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

At a hospital grand round on mental health funding, a registrar is asked how much Australia spends on mental health. She finds several different figures in circ…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche

A general practice in Perth is planning how to staff its mental health clinics and asks a medical student to summarise the most recent national data. The studen…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 31-year-old primary school teacher has felt low, flat and tearful for seven weeks. She still gets to work every day but finds preparing lessons harder than us…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 58-year-old man with a three-month depressive episode tells his general practitioner, quietly and without being asked, that he has been thinking about ending…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 15-year-old girl is brought by her mother, who says that for four months she has snapped at everyone, slipped from top of the class to failing, given up netba…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 32-year-old woman attends the child health clinic six weeks after an uncomplicated birth. For a month she has felt flat throughout the day, has taken no pleas…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 61-year-old man is brought by his daughter seven months after his wife died. He has lost 9 kg, wakes at 3 am, and has not gone back to the bowls club or to hi…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common